Why Do Some People Think Dragon Age Is Set In The Mass Effect Universe?
If you ask most people to name a BioWare game, they'd say "Ew, you're a gamer? Get away from me nerd!", but if you asked a fellow gamer to name a BioWare title, chances are you'd hear either "Mass Effect" or "Dragon Age" in response. Neither of those are BioWare's most recent game (remasters aside, it was Anthem), while the studio also made Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur's Gate. It's quite a legacy, but the DAME years came when BioWare supercharged its reputation and heralded a new dawn of video games. A dawn that, ironically, crushed Andromeda under the weight of sprawling development cycles and sky-high expectations. Dragon Age and Mass Effect are more closely related than just sharing a studio though - they might also share a universe.
The theory, underpinned by a few Easter Eggs and lots of imagination, proposes that Thedas is but a planet in the Mass Effect universe. We know that planets not considered advanced enough are left alone while the Reapers invade - Javik recalls when the Salarians were barely sentient creatures without language who ate flies. The threshold for 'advanced' seems to rely on space travel. Dragon Age's planet has not mastered space travel, so despite their sentience, culture, and intelligence, the creatures who dwell there are but specks in the galaxy.
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First off, there is a krogan in Dragon Age and an ogre in Mass Effect, which feels like a pretty firm tie - albeit both are blink and you'll miss it references. A krogan head is on display in the Winter Palace in Dragon Age Inquisition, while you'll find an ogre statue during Kasumi's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2. We also
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